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jim demint, one of three that did not vote last night. guest: i do not know if that means he was not here, or he abstained. i imagine he could not have voted to support this. host: donna, independent caller. caller: my concern is that i am basically lost in the cracks. i was a hard worker, paid my taxes, i had an accident, and now i have cancer. i get my medicare, but still i am having to pay for more insurance. my social security check went up, but i have to pay the high price of medical care because of the bills, and it is not fair because i can not get supplemental insurance to help me pay for my disease. i do not think it is fair enough to where i am lost in the crack, and i can barely make it. all of my money goes directly to medical costs. about i'm sorry to hear that, if a tragedy, but she points out the problem. when you go after 2% of the taxpayers and small businesses to fix the problems better on our shoulders, it is picking the winners and losers. it happens on the other end as well. when you say we will pay for unemployment i
jim demint, one of three that did not vote last night. guest: i do not know if that means he was not here, or he abstained. i imagine he could not have voted to support this. host: donna, independent caller. caller: my concern is that i am basically lost in the cracks. i was a hard worker, paid my taxes, i had an accident, and now i have cancer. i get my medicare, but still i am having to pay for more insurance. my social security check went up, but i have to pay the high price of medical care...
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they reached a deal on the fiscal cliff put they set up more fiscal cliffs, as senator jim moran said on the floor recently. the big battle is the debt ceiling. will the president and republicans in congress agree to raise the debt ceiling maybe in exchange for spending cuts. we saw that in 2011. the obama administration says they're not playing that game anymore. they have some type of plan to raise the debt ceiling and go around the congress. they're not revealing detifles it but that that's going to be the big fight, the debt ceiling fight in a couple of months. host: we're talking with bob cusack on the open dage of the 113th congress. we want your questions and congressmens, democrat, 202-585-3880, republicans 202- 585-3881. let's get the first call, michael. caller: i'm an professor in an m.b.a. program, i have students from 48 country, i have a pretty good perspective. the situation here, by the way, i teach present value accounting. i see very, very few accountants in the house of representatives. but let me give you an observation, you're concentrating on cutting the medical
they reached a deal on the fiscal cliff put they set up more fiscal cliffs, as senator jim moran said on the floor recently. the big battle is the debt ceiling. will the president and republicans in congress agree to raise the debt ceiling maybe in exchange for spending cuts. we saw that in 2011. the obama administration says they're not playing that game anymore. they have some type of plan to raise the debt ceiling and go around the congress. they're not revealing detifles it but that that's...
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>> i think and i am not pointing fingers, when we went after jim wright, newt was the speaker and jim was forced out of office. they went after newt. the combat became very personal. that is one of the things that started this movement. over time, i think it has become political as well as personal. much more political and personal. >> she said raising cain, are -- -- you said raising cain. you will the gavel for the oversight committee and use that to raise the number of investigations especially of the clinton administration. what do you see as your legacy of that tenure? >> i think bill clinton, president clinton and hilary as secretary of state do not like me very much. i was chair of the government oversight committee during the time we were investigating whitewater and we were investigating campaign contributions that came from sources outside the united states and from various people. there was an awful lot to that. we had people testifying like johnny chung, they had contributed money to gain favor with the white house. there were other illegal contributions that we found. and
>> i think and i am not pointing fingers, when we went after jim wright, newt was the speaker and jim was forced out of office. they went after newt. the combat became very personal. that is one of the things that started this movement. over time, i think it has become political as well as personal. much more political and personal. >> she said raising cain, are -- -- you said raising cain. you will the gavel for the oversight committee and use that to raise the number of...
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jim and his team, he is one of the creators of the semantic web, collaborating with the white house, have developed smart interfaces that allow government data from a huge variety of sources to be combined in unexpected and beneficial ways. now the infrastructure and technology they have created is -- makes it possible for others to mash up data sets, and to develop more than 1,200 applications that are now driving public polcy. now, if we take full advantage of these emerging technologies, new opportunities will be created by the ability with smart analytics to anticipate and predict events and to mitigate them. now, the intersections and interactions are complex. the outcomes can be powerful and risky. powerful in that we will be able to see connection that is we would not have seen otherwise and have bitter -- better predictive capabilities, particularly on the trending of things, but risky in that interconnectivity can lead to sometimes abhorrent and certainly unintended consequences like flash crashes. so as we saw all too clearly in the devastating ways with energy communicatio
jim and his team, he is one of the creators of the semantic web, collaborating with the white house, have developed smart interfaces that allow government data from a huge variety of sources to be combined in unexpected and beneficial ways. now the infrastructure and technology they have created is -- makes it possible for others to mash up data sets, and to develop more than 1,200 applications that are now driving public polcy. now, if we take full advantage of these emerging technologies, new...
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and jim is absolutely right. until more people get the message that he seems to have gotten, we're not going to fix the problem. host: "the washington post" shows its readers the impact on taxpayers. where your income bracket is and what your percentage chance of having your tax increase is in this next 2013 year. we can see the breakdown and in orange, that's the percentage of people in those brackets that will see their taxes go up. caller: in addition to, oh, the specifics, what has been reported on, what all of us know was passed last evening, in addition to that, what was added to the bill that we don't know about? the pork kinds of items? what are some of those? thank have been added? perhaps to garner votes? one question. and another question to representative mulvaney, can you ever -- i would have voted in favor by the way of the bill last evening. and my question for you is, can you ever vote for a compromise that includes a tax increase on high earners and if so, what is the breaking point? host: thanks
and jim is absolutely right. until more people get the message that he seems to have gotten, we're not going to fix the problem. host: "the washington post" shows its readers the impact on taxpayers. where your income bracket is and what your percentage chance of having your tax increase is in this next 2013 year. we can see the breakdown and in orange, that's the percentage of people in those brackets that will see their taxes go up. caller: in addition to, oh, the specifics, what...